Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk said his company's next vehicle was a "difficult second album" due to delays in production. Regardless, the company may already have as many as 13,000 reservations across the world for the upcoming Model X, with over 10,000 in the U.S. alone.

As a result, Tesla isn't rushing into Model X production, nor revealing its final form until the company is truly happy with it. That's possibly why there was no Model X--not even a prototype--on Tesla's stand at Geneva.

Musk also noted that Model X delays have been partly down to ensuring the Model S was delivered with excellent service "in all geographies". Rolling the car out into Europe and into Eastern markets has occupied quite a lot of the company's time/

The good news for those who enthused about the prototype Model X is that the production car should be even better.

"I really am quite insistent that the production version be superior to anything we’ve demonstrated before," Musk told Bloomberg.

Tesla certainly needs to get the Model X right, with Musk suggesting demand for the car may even be above that of the Model S. Recent figures suggest the Model X may already have as many as 13,000 reservations across the world, with over 10,000 in the U.S. alone.

Autonomous vehicles are also taking up Tesla's time right now, and are potentially only a few years away, according to Musk.

He says Tesla has possibly "the strongest autonomous driving team of any auto company", and expects to be one of the first companies to offer significant autonomous driving functions in its vehicles.

Delays in the Model X shouldn't affect the timetable for the smaller, more affordable Model E though. In part, Musk says cars like the Model X will help generate extra cash flow before the Model E, which he considers the company's third-generation model.

That's if the Model E isn't also pushed back by Musk's perfectionism, of course...

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